EP 220: FuturePod - Foresightful Engineering - Samista Jugwanth
A conversation with Samista Jugwanth who is an engineer and technical director at Zutari in South Africa
A conversation with Samista Jugwanth who is an engineer and technical director at Zutari in South Africa
A conversation with Erik Overland about his paper, Sustainability and Futures, Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial
The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Rowena Morrow
A conversation with Patricia Lustig and Gill Ringland about their new book, The Possibility Wheel
A conversation with Shermon Cruz and Katindi Sivi about a new futures community being established, the Global South Futures Community.
The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Bhavana Nissima
The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Sonja Blignaut.
Our first episode in a different style of podcast that we are calling ‘ Letters to the Future’ , with our inaugural guest, Marcus Bussey.
Peter’s guest today is Trish Lavery who is an academic and policy expert working with the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University. Her work places human behaviour at the centre of strategy, futures, and strategic foresight.
Riel Miller returns for his sixth FuturePod appearance and another deep dive into matters Futures and Foresight related.
Peter chats with Elissa Farrow and Jeanne Hoffman about the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium 3-4 April 2025 they are organising in Meanjin (Brisbane).
Paulo Carvalho is an Educator, Innovator and Entrepreneur who has thought deeply about the disruptions and opportunities provided by Generative AI and who has just published a report on how he believes Generative AI will disrupt Foresight.
Doris Viljoen is the Director of the Institute of Futures Research at the Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa and she explains why she has the coolest job in the world and about our responsibility to do good work that grows our field
Alexis is a Design and Foresight Strategist in Toronto and Peter chats to her about the psychology of meeting our future self and how we can build a better relationship with that self plus also make the future more vivid by colouring the future in with thoughts and experiences. Like the experience of engaging with Nature.
In this episode, Amanda speaks with Rose Genele about how we can navigate the ethics of using Artificial Intelligence. Rose is a transformative leader and AI ethics advocate committed to creating ethical, resilient companies and technologies, and the host of the What Are We Going To Do With All This Future podcast. WAWGTDWATF podcast: https://rosegenele.com/wawgtdwatf-podcast/ Contact Rose: https://rosegenele.com/contact/...
Peter talks to Dana Klisanin who is a psychologist, and futurist. She is the founder of ReWilding: Lab and pioneer of ReWilding Leadership™ , an innovative approach that reconnects leaders with the wisdom of the natural world to foster creativity, resilience, and sustainability.
Roger Spitz returns for a chat about his new book Disrupt with Impact. Roger is a Foresight advisor, venture capitalist, an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network, the President of Techistential and he also chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute
A chat with Gareth Priday who is lead Foresight practitioner at Action Foresight and a director at Living Labs Innovation Network and Ethical Fields. His interests are many but his passion is how people think about the future and how, as professionals, we can best work with that.
Ross Dawson discusses his journey into futurism, emphasizing the importance of enriching mental models and embracing uncertainty. He explores the integration of Zen philosophy with future planning, the role of AI in augmenting human cognition, and the challenges of cognitive evolution in an age of information overload. Dawson also touches on the need for balanced AI regulation and effective communication in the field of futurism.
James Balzer is a policy analyst in the New South Wales Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. He was recently admitted into the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Fellowship supported by the School of International Futures.
To mark our 200th episode of FuturePod we have assembled the whole FuturePod team, who are interviewed by a special guest host, Dr Stuart Candy.
Patrick Hoverstadt is a Director and Consultant at Fractal Consulting and the author of The Fractal Organisation and Patterns of Strategy. Patrick is a viable system model (VSM) expert and we cover his deep views on systems thinking.
A return conversation with Frank Spencer that covers a lot and specifically the new book Natural Foresight
A conversation with Aminata Mansaray, a Strategic Foresight practitioner in Sierra Leone about how she is changing communities and lives using Strategic Foresight.
A conversation with Michael Lawrence and Megan Shipman who are from the Cascade Institute which is a Canadian research centre at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia about Polycrisis and the community they are supporting to understanding, mitigating and managing it.
Rob Roe returns to FuturePod to discuss his latest venture in the world of managing change. A bookcast that distils the best of the books on change that Rob has found through his extensive reading.
John Smart, the CEO of Foresight U, joins us to chat about his book ‘An Introduction to Foresight’. Among many things he expands on his three mottos for investing in foresight and doing good work sustainably.
Meredith Bowden and Dave Godden host a community called Complex Mess that supports people who are looking for new and different ways to engage with complex messes. They explain how to Coddiwomple is to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination.
A guest conversation between Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson and Elizabeth Merritt starts from the question about how Museums of the Future create agency and Hope and what can be gleaned from that for general Foresight application
Jay Gary returns for a chat and we discuss leadership development, institutional support, practice development and how his faith is foundational to his work and purpose